1. What Knowledge is the Most Worth: Education for the Global Economy

2. Our Challenges Today…

3. The emergence of two new worlds Local-Physical Virtual Global Local-Physical

4. what is the global world?

5. As electrically contracted, the globe is no more than a village. Marshall McLuhan, 1964 “ Honey,” I confided, “I think the world is flat.” Thomas Friedman, 2005

6. By almost any economically relevant metric, distances have shrunk considerably in recent decades. [T]he shrinking globe has been a major source of the powerful wave of worldwide economic integration and increased economic interdependence that we are currently experiencing. But the full implications of these developments for all aspects of our lives will not be known for many years. --Ben S. Bernanke, chairman of the U. S. Federal Reserve 2006 Death of Distance

7. Global Integration Goods People Money Global Free Flow

8. Challenge One: Jobs

9. When I was growing up, my parents told me, “Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.” I tell my daughters, “Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.” ---Thomas Friedman, 2005

10. International Division of Labor

11. The eBay Phenomenon: Expanded Market

12. The World Cup was first televised in 1954 and is now the most widely-viewed and followed sporting event in the world, exceeding even the Olympic Games. The cumulative audience of the 2006 World Cup — including all of the matches — is estimated to be 26.29 billion. 715.1 million individuals watched the final match of this tournament (a ninth of the entire population of the planet). The 2006 World Cup draw, which decided the distribution of teams into groups, was watched by 300 million viewers. Only 11 countries have made it to the final match, and only seven have won.

13. New Professions

14. Search engine optimization ( SEO ) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via "natural" ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results for targeted keywords. Usually, the earlier a site is presented in the search results or the higher it "ranks", the more searchers will visit that site. The expansion of global trade and the increase in US foreign language speakers should lead to a 26% increase in the translation industry by 2014. Demand for Translators and Interpreters Rises in USA

15. Today, Indian engineers make $7,500 a year against $45,000 for an American engineer with the same qualifications. If we succeed in matching the very high levels of mastery of mathematics and science of these Indian engineers — an enormous challenge for this country — why would the world’s employers pay us more than they have to pay the Indians to do their work? They would be willing to do that only if we could offer something that the Chinese and Indians, and others, cannot. --New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce (2007). Tough Choices or Tougher Times

16. Therefore we need to move into niche areas where they will not be able to completely replace us for quite some time. ---Lee Kuan Yew, 2007 In the global economy, our student’s careers are global. Where can they find employment depends on their niche talents.

17. Daniel H. Pink (2005).A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age

20. Challenge Two: Getting Along

21. McDonaldization and Starbucks in the Forbidden City: Global Consumerism Our students are affected by global forces, cultural clashes, and different value systems.

22. Challenge Three: Mother Earth

23. Climate Change and the Bird Flu: Global Elephant in the Local Bedroom The predicted effects of climate change over the coming decades include extreme weather events, drought, flooding, sea level rise, retreating glaciers, habitat shifts, and the increased spread of life-threatening diseases. These conditions have the potential to disrupt our way of life and to force changes in the way we keep ourselves safe and secure. . . Projected climate change will seriously exacerbate already marginal living standards in many Asian, African, and Middle Eastern nations, causing widespread political instability and the likelihood of failed states.... The chaos that results can be an incubator of civil strife, genocide, and the growth of terrorism. The CNA Corporation, 2007

24. Global Citizenship The completely untraveled person will view all foreigners as the savage regards a member of another herd. But the man who has traveled, or who has studied international politics, will have discovered that, if his herd is to prosper, it must, to some degree, become amalgamated with other herds. --Bertrand Russell, 1950

26. “ The FBI did not dedicate sufficient resources to the surveillance and translation needs of counter-terrorism agents. It lacked sufficient translators proficient in Arabic and other key languages, resulting in a significant backlog of un-translated intercepts,” according to the 9/11 Commission. “ Part of the reason for our difficulty is that we simply don’t have enough competent speakers of Arabic with credible policy context and an ability to connect with the intended audience so they will at least listen to what we are trying to say and give us a hearing.” (Committee for Economic Development, 2006) “ Compared to their counterparts from universities in other parts of the world, U.S. students are ‘strong technically’ but ‘shortchanged’ in cross-cultural experience and ‘linguistically deprived.’”

27. American companies lose an estimated $2 billion a year due to inadequate cross-cultural guidance for their employees in multicultural situations. A 2002 survey of large U.S. corporations found that nearly 30 percent of the companies believed they had failed to exploit fully their international business opportunities due to insufficient personnel with international skills. Microsoft’s Windows95 was banned by Indian because its Time Zone map put the region of Kashmir outside the boundaries of India. (Committee for Economic Development, 2006)

29. The Virtual

30. Virtual marriage & 2nd Life: Socializing virtually Anshe Chung has become the first online personality to achieve a net worth exceeding one million US dollars from profits entirely earned inside a virtual world. --Business Week, May, 2006

31. Gold-farming and digital produce: Digital farmers market

33. Real-money trade of virtual items (RMT) “ I estimate the total worldwide RMT volume to reach 2,090M ” Virtual Economy Research Network: http://virtual-economy.org/blog/how_big_is_the_rmt_market_anyw

34. YouTube and podcasting: Running your own show With the 100 millionth account being created on August 9 , 2006 [4] and a news story claiming 106 million accounts on September 8 , 2006 , [5] the site reportedly attracts new registrations at a rate of 230,000 per day. Currently staffed by 67 employees, [1] the company was named TIME magazine's "Invention of the Year" for 2006. [2] In October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had reached a deal to acquire the company for US$ 1.65 billion in Google's stock. The deal closed on 13 November 2006 . [3] Podcast Users Expected To Reach 60 Million In Five Years The number of podcast users in the United States is expected to increase nearly 15 fold over the next five years, a research group says. –Information Week, May 15, 2005

35. Hackers and Thieves: Morality and Crimes in CyberSpace What can an 18 year old do? In the UK, Sasser forced staff at the Maritime and Coastguard Agency to return to manual map reading because computer systems were made unusable by the worm. Check-in for some British Airways flights was also delayed thanks to Sasser. Around the world, the Australian Railcorp trains stopped running because computer problems caused by Sasser made it impossible for drivers to talk to signalmen. In Taiwan, more than 400 branches of the post office were forced to use pen and paper because Sasser crashed desktop PCs. Anti-virus firm Sophos estimates that 70% of all the virus infections in the first half of 2004 could be blamed on Mr Jaschan's creations. Statistics gathered by Sophos show that in the first six months of 2005 there were four variants of Netsky in the top 10 viruses and they accounted for 25.5% of all infections. Unlike many other viruses, Sasser made its way from

37. Fool’s Gold: Why and How the Current Education Reform Efforts Destroy Our Children’s Future

38. Despite the billions of dollars being spent on ‘education reform’ since 1983, the U.S. has implemented none of the meaningful recommendations of the 1983 report and as a result has seen no real improvements to our math or science education system. ----Robert Compton,2008, creator and executive producer of the documentary Two Million Minutes . Source: http://www.2mminutes.com/pressblog6.html Two decades later, A Nation at Risk remains significant in terms of setting the debate and ushering in an era of reform in education, but its goals have not yet been realized. The changes wrought by twenty years of task forces, committees, and study groups have not produced the hoped-for improvement in student achievement. Few of the commission's recommendations were properly implemented, and many of those that were proved too timid to bring about effective educational reform. --Diane Ravitch 2003 Source: http://www.hoover.org/pubaffairs/dailyreport/archive/2848976.html

39. U.S. treading water in reading Bloomberg News Service Russia, Hong Kong and Singapore shot to the top of 45 countries and provinces participating in a fourth-grade reading test, while England fell below the United States, according to results released yesterday. (Honolulu Advertiser, November 29, 2007) U.S. Students Fall Short in Math and Science Teenagers in a majority of industrialized nations taking part in a leading international exam showed greater scientific understanding than students in the United States—and they far surpassed their American peers in mathematics . (Education Week, December 4, 2007)

40. The Puzzle

41. http://www.weforum.org/pdf/Global_Competitiveness_Reports/Reports/gcr_2007/gcr2007_rankings.pdf

46. Why?

47. What Knowledge is of Most Worth? Yong Zhao, Ph. D University Distinguished Professor Director, US-China Center for Research on Educational Excellence College of Education Executive Director, Confucius Institute Michigan State University [email_address]

48. Test scores in math?

50. Jefferson told us where to look to see if a nation is a success. He did not say to look at test scores. Instead, he said to look at “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” --Keith Baker (2007)

58. Baker, Keith (2007). Are International Tests Worth Anything? Kappan, October, 2007

59. Or test scores in anything?

60. One of psychology’s open secrets is the relative inability of grades, IQ, or SAT scores, despite their popular mystique, to predict unerringly who will succeed in life. . . At best, IQ contributes about 20 percent to the factors that determine life success, which leaves 80 percent to other forces. ---Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

61. What made the difference?

63. By the way

64. bureaucratization of education kills creativity discrimination narrows curriculum cheating demoralization

65. Campbell’s Law The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it was intended to monitor.

67. Linguistic Logic Musical Kinaesthetic Child A Child B Child C Child D

68. Imagination is more important than knowledge. It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. Albert Einstein

69. A ‘Rainbow’ Approach to Admissions This year, applicants to Tufts will also have the option of answering very different kinds of questions. They might be asked to write a short story to fit the title “Confessions of a Middle School Bully” or “The End of MTV.” They might be asked to write an essay imagining what the world would have been like had Rosa Parks given up her seat on the bus or had John Paul I lived longer than a month as pope. Or they could create an advertisement or ad campaign for a product that doesn’t exist. Other exercises might be timed and prompted by videos. They could watch a film about a situation they might face in college — such as going to a professor to ask for a recommendation only to realize that the professor doesn’t know you — and write a short piece about what they would do. --Inside Higher Ed, July 6, 2006

70. Be informed of changes. Model attitudes and behaviors. Lead changes in curriculum, policy, and events in your schools. Advocate changes in the state and the nation.

71. My challenge to you: And I pledge to return education to public education, to protect the imagination and curiosity of all children, to keep their passion for learning burning, to help them become good citizens, not excellent test takers.

78. Are you ready to lead with courage and vision?